Ru’ach Ha-Adam

  • Lyrics: Ehud Manor
  • Music: Ilan Wirzberg
  • Arrangements: Ilan Wirzberg
  • Album: Kol HaNeshama (1994)

Ofra: “The song was written for all the disabled people in the country, and it says that the spirit of a man is stronger than the body.”
  • Transliteration
  • Translation

Ru’ach Ha-Adam
Hi lo nivhelet, lo nivhelet kshe-ha-guf poched
Hi lo nishberet, lo nishberet kshe-ha-guf boged
Ru’ach ha-adam yechola laguf
Ru’ach ha-adam yechola la’uf

Hi lo nivhelet, lo nivhelet kshe-ha-guf poched
Hi lo nishberet, lo nishberet kshe-ha-guf boged
Ru’ach ha-adam yechola laguf
Ru’ach ha-adam yechola la’uf

Et kol shadei ha-lev
Et kol shadei ha-ke’ev
Nuchal legaresh
Im rak nit’akesh
Ki ein lecha eima
She-i efshar le-harchika
Be-negia raka
U-ve-neshika

Hi lo nivhelet, lo nivhelet kshe-ha-guf poched
Hi lo nishberet, lo nishberet kshe-ha-guf boged
Ru’ach ha-adam yechola laguf
Ru’ach ha-adam yechola la’uf

Hi lo nivhelet, lo nivhelet kshe-ha-guf poched
Hi lo nishberet, lo nishberet kshe-ha-guf boged
Ru’ach ha-adam yechola laguf
Ru’ach ha-adam yechola la’uf

Et kol shadei ha-lev
Et kol shadei ha-ke’ev
Nuchal legaresh
Im rak nit’akesh
Ki ein lecha eima
She-i efshar le-harchika
Be-negia raka
U-ve-neshika